The phrase "and may be characterized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing or defining something in a way that suggests it has certain qualities or features.
Example: "The phenomenon is complex and may be characterized by its unpredictable nature."
Alternatives: "and can be described" or "and might be defined".
The Anthropocene deposits of England, here regarded as those formed after ∼1950 CE, are now extensive, take various forms, and may be characterized and recognized by a number of stratigraphic signals, such as artificial radionuclides, pesticide residues, microplastics, enhanced fly ash levels, concrete fragments and a novel variety of 'technofossils' and neobiotic species.
Since different regions of the mixture can have different ignition delays and may be characterized by one- or two-stage ignition, the autoignition process can be accelerated by ignition kernel propagation or the role of heat dissipation may be reduced through the prevalence of one-stage and two-stage ignitions in different regions of the mixture.
Homologous proteins share a common ancestry, and may be characterized as either orthologs (which evolve by speciation only) or paralogs (which arise by gene duplication) [1], [2].
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and may be characterized on the basis of whether estrogen receptors (ER) are expressed in the tumour cells.
Therefore, it is possible that CSCs from luminal cell types may be different than those from basal cell types and may be characterized as CD44+/CD24+.
As result, Formulation 2 allows potentially the analysis of larger instances than Formulation 1 and may be characterized by faster solution times.
However, it has also been reported that the prevalence of each metabolic syndrome risk factor differs with sex (9, 10), and, thus, it follows that men and women may be characterized by different metabolic syndrome combinations.
Redshift (and blueshift) may be characterized by the relative difference between the observed and emitted wavelengths (or frequency) of an object.
Bracings are usually assumed to be elastic, and so may be characterized by their elastic stiffnesses.
These data suggest that glycine and alanine may be characterized by similar kcat, but that a much higher kcat is expected for aspartic acid and valine (Fig. 4).
It is noteworthy that similar situations and strategies may be characterized differently across cultures (Rogoff, 2003).
